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1886.2.120

Fan of plaited pandanus leaf with wooden handle and black hair binding. [LKG 25/09/2009]

1886.2.120

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Collection type
Object
Description
Fan of plaited pandanus leaf with wooden handle and black hair binding. [LKG 25/09/2009]
Long description
Fan of plaited pandanus leaf with wooden handle and black hair binding. The fan is roughly triangular with the point at the head of the fan and the bottom two corners rounded. The handle is of a dark wood, smoothed and rounded and bound at the top just beneath the fan with plaited black hair. This hair holds into place the strips of pandanus leaf which have been used to weave the main fan. [LKG 25/09/2009]
Geographical reference
Samoa
Oceania > Polynesia > Samoa
Date / Period
Date made: Before 1883
Date collected
November 1883
Acquisition information
Transferred: 1885, uncertain Transferred: 1886, uncertain
Materials and processes
Material Pandanus Plant, Material Plant Leaf, Material Hair, Process Plaited, Process Basketry, Process Bound, Process Plaited, Process Knotted
Dimensions
Width 263 mm, Length 512 mm
Object numbers
Accession number: 1886.2.120
Research and responses

For further information about Commander W.A.D. Acland see Biographies file. He served in Peru in the early 1880s and may have collected these objects at that time [AP 1/9/99]

Dates of collection given by Elizabeth Edwards [AP 2/9/99]

Search terms: Fan, Basketry

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